The Opioid Crisis Sweeping the US Has Hidden Victims: Tens of Thousands of Children Forced from Their Homes

December 12, 2017

(Associated Press) – Across the U.S., soaring use of opioids has forced tens of thousands of children from their homes, creating a generation of kids abandoned by addicted parents, orphaned because of fatal overdoses or torn from fractured families by authorities fearful of leaving them in drug-addled chaos.